Global Gateway: Gorongosa Story

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/mozambique-paradise-lost-and-found

Introduces the issue of Mozambique's Goronogosa National Park and efforts by American philanthropist Greg Carr to restore what was once a crown jewel of Africa's environment.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Pulitzer Center
• Mozambique
• Gorongosa
• Carr Foundation
• Environment
• Conservation
• Africa
• Ecotourism
• Sustainable Development
• Safari
• Poaching
• Gorongosa National Park
• Gorongosa Restoration Project
• Africa's Lost Eden
• Global Gateway
• Jon Sawyer
• Stephanie Hanes

[DrainExpress]

fraud66,actually, there are many documentaries on how corporations are raping the Earth.You might want to eg. read the German "Der Spiegel" (translations).And stop this nonsense "white versus black" because there are only a handful of genes that code for outside differences between us - otherwise we r 99.8% identical.

[sniktawk]

I am white and English but live in South Africa. I watched this in the hope that I would see something about Gorongosa, which I am planning to visit next year. Instead I get propoganda for Americans who know nothing about the rest of the world. This park and it's redevelopment are well publicised in Africa and Europe, it is probably unknown in USA because it is not marketed by Wilderness Safaris.

[roquemoz1]

what about the amazon forest?? the Arctic, they are all gonna be nothing by 2100 maybe. god bless this guy.

[shadowkitty56]

The point I was trying to make is that of all the dirty dealers, China is likely the dirtiest. America, I will admit, is no saint, but at the very least the businesses hire locals to work the land.

[shadowkitty56]

I do. As I said earlier, Greg Carr is probably worth a good few million dollars (he invented voice mail.) He doesn't have to lift a finger to help, but he does (read about Andrew Carnegie if you want proof that this is nothing new.)

[shadowkitty56]

The corporations (and through them the Chinese Politburo) gobble up the resources and import most of their labor from home, often with the laborers forming settlements. The laborers do not fraternize with the locals and gobble up most of the resources and land: sound familiar?

[pseudonym1964]

Yeah, well that just confirms my point: the new colonialism is back.... and they are now Chinese, American (what is new) Russsian etc. So, no, i dont believe in the 'philanthropist'.

[shadowkitty56]

A place like Gorongosa could provide the locals with jobs and could help the government gain foreign investment it craves.

Last, if you want to see what real neocolonialism is, ask the Chinese: the Chinese typically don't hire local labor in any of the vast mining operations they have anywhere in Africa and they do not have any non-Chinese holding high office. (CONTD)

[shadowkitty56]

Use your head: Mozambique does not have a lot of options except for selling its resources at rock bottom prices or attracting tourists. Personally, if I were Mozambican, I would want option B. Tourist dollars from national parks can generate billions of dollars for the economy and strengthen infrastructure, plus encourages diversification of business, and later, long term growth. Kruger National Park generated 30 million dollars last year.

[shadowkitty56]

Second, Greg Carr is independently wealthy: he could be sitting on his fat butt in the Greek Isles like half of the European elite. Instead he is in a nation that consistently ranks as one of the poorest and simultaneously has an earth shattering rate of HIV. Infrastructure in that country is awful: it does not have the diamond industry of neighboring Botswana or the much sounder economics of South Africa.

[shadowkitty56]

First, maybe if Arab traders had not started the African slave trade in the Middle Ages, maybe if Europe did not exploit a weakened Africa in the 19th century Mozambique would be telling a different tale, let alone Gorongosa (note how the lingua francas in 2/3 of southern Africa are Portuguese, English, and Afrikaans and even now these are the languages of advancement.)